Books on tape became popular some 10 years ago. At that time, people were intrigued with the new concept of listening to novels during long car trips or while riding the bus to work. I improvised on that concept when my family went on a road trip about eight years ago, and my husband and […]

At the beginning of the bar year, I talked about the “opportunity to succeed/permission to fail” mentality that I hoped the MSBA and its members would be willing to adopt. I raised various challenges to the profession and the legal system, the risk and benefit of change, and the possibility of innovation not yet envisioned […]

According to Merriam-Webster, an “apprentice” is someone “who is learning by practical experience under skilled workers a trade, art or calling.” Wikipedia describes an apprenticeship as “a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study.” Apprenticeships, historically used in trades and guilds […]

Our family finally made the great American road trip this summer and visited the Black Hills and famous national landmark, Mount Rushmore. The gigantic stone sculptures embedded into the rocks of the Black Hills National Forest of course reveal 60-feet high carved faces (equivalent to six-story high profiles) of four important national figures: George Washington, […]

I’m not really a dog person. Probably more accurately, I’m not really a pet person. But I think that what that really means is that I’ve never been exposed to pets (unless you count a guppy, which I don’t think you can). Now it’s not that I don’t like animals, it’s just that I’m completely […]

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl When I started practicing law in this community 20 years ago, I could never have imagined: that you could (or would even want to) know how many steps you took that day; that you could turn […]